How to rig elections (WHY2025)

Enter the fascinating world of corruption, chicanery, low-tech fraud, and forensic tools that uncover it. The story is told through the eyes of a Russian election official who has participated in campaigns of all levels in the past 4 years and fought for justice (mostly unsuccessfully). Watch a demo how to tamper with a security bag and learn how to use statistics to detect ballot stuffing [1]. See the obstacles faced by Russians wanting a change. See how the government “wins” the elections. [1] A. Podlazov and V. Makarov, Dual approach to proving electoral fraud via statistics and forensics, https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04535 Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ about this event: https://program.why2025.org/why2025/talk/U7HBTJ/